a few years ago, i took the mbti and scored as an infj. i had just lost my father to a sudden and massive heart attack and just moved out of my mothers. over the past 3 years i have experienced a lot. from drug addiction, to an abusive relationship, coming to terms with my own mental illness, several miscarriages. things have finally started to look up for me, i have had a great job that i love for over a year now, and am going back to school in 2 weeks. i retook the test last night, expecting it to possibly be a bit different, but i went from being and INFJ when i was 19, to now being ISFP at 22. this happen to anyone else before?

I think I've always been an ISFP. Like crimony pointed out, Jung said types don't really change. Different experiences might cause you to express different parts of your personality and make shifts in behavior, but the cognitive functions basically remain the same. Of course, there are other schools of thought. :) I'm not here to tell people what they are or aren't.

I was raised by two very strong J-type parents (ISFJ and ISTJ), so that influenced me quite a bit growing up. I learned to be more organized (at least enough to appease my parents), which helped a lot in school. Once I left home for college, I began to see more of my own traits and habits develop, and I was like...yep, definitely ISFP up in here. (In retrospect, I was super-repressed at home.) I suppose that could be interpreted as a change from some perspectives. Personally, I chalk it up to some good ol' personal growth.

Back in High School, I don't remember exactly what I used to be, but I think it was INTJ, but now I am on my 5th year of a 5 year program, and after going through various relationship issues, friendship issues, a bit of counseling and medication, drugs&alcohol (no addiction, but I did use it as an easy escape), and all of the other things that have happened I recently took the test again and found my self to be the ISFP we are apart of now.

That's interesting. I think I've always been an ISFP, but I can understand how those sorts of circumstances could do that. Feeling a loss of control over life could probably turn a J into a P. A conscious decision to live more in the moment rather than in your head could change you from an N to an S. And even the experience of trauma I imagine could make you more compassionate towards the feelings of others and lead you to drift from the more cold logic of a T. Does that fit with your experience, or am I just making things up lol?

Well I definitely agree to the lack of control, and sort of with the wanting to live in the moment instead being so in my head as much, it's kinda hard to explain since it has all been such gradual changes over time that I didn't really notice things were getting bad until I was too far and I have been trying to change things gradually to make them better.

I was an INFP for my high school and college years; I retested to a version of the test used by my current workplace, and turned out an ISFP. I think it's due to my not considering the people in my life as more important than myself anymore, and thus not appreciating my talents in order of how well they benefit others.

I was an INFJ last time I took it maybe a couple years ago at 18 or 19. My roommate had to take the test for a class so I retook it, believing I was an INFJ. Just got ISFP. Not sure where that changed. Maybe just life stresses the last couple of years. Shrug.